Metro overview, all trades
Home-service contractors in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area has 9,643 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 38.45 per 10,000 residents.
The largest trade here is other home service, with 5,725 records and 59.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 42.
No trade in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro runs meaningfully ahead of Oregon’s own rate per resident for that trade. It carries fewer pool contractors than the state average.
Among the 4 Oregon metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's largest trades: it is 2nd of 4 for other home service, around the middle; it is the thinnest of them for landscaping; and it is 2nd of 4 for flooring, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Oregon.
The facts for Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro
- Home-service contractors in this metro
- 9,643
- Per 10,000 residents
- 38.45 per 10,000
- Trades with at least one record
- 11 of 11
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 260
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 23
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 9,344 independent, 100 franchise brand, 143 corporate owned, 56 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.72% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.64% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 2,508,050, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro
Other home service is Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as landscaping, the next largest.
In order, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's four largest trades are other home service, landscaping, flooring and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.
All eleven trades carry at least one record in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. The smallest of them here is pool.
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and roofing. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.
Every trade in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro clears the record floor a trade page has to meet, so each has a page of its own. That is a statement about how thick this metro's thinnest trade is.
Per resident, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro sits close to the Oregon rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.
No trade is strongly over-represented in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro against Oregon. Cleaning leans furthest above the state mix and even that lean is slight.
Even Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's thinnest trade against Oregon, pool, sits close to the state share.
Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, landscaping and flooring are Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.
No Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.
No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.
A median hourly wage is published for electrical, plumbing, HVAC and roofing in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. Of those, electrical pays the most and roofing the least.
Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.
Electrical carries Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 7,340 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 385 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.
Of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in painting; the most franchised trade here is flooring.
Within Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, pool and electrical are the most independently held trades and painting the least.
Almost none of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Pest control holds what little of that bucket the metro has.
Cleaning is the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.
More Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and flooring lost the largest share to closed flags.
The cities inside Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Vancouver, Tigard, Gresham, Lake Oswego and Oregon City, and 6 more. Each of them carries one trade.
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA crosses a state line, so this metro area sits in more than one licensing regime at once. Every count above is the whole metro; every licence figure beneath it is computed inside one state.
Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro on this site are San Antonio-New Braunfels above it and Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.
Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro's neighbours are Youngstown-Warren and Tyler. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.
Every trade in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro
| Trade | Contractors | Per 10,000 | Licensed share | Median hourly wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 479 | 1.91 | Not published | |
| Electrical | 385 | 1.54 | Not published | $50.53 |
| Flooring | 580 | 2.31 | Not published | |
| HVAC | 444 | 1.77 | Not published | $31.38 |
| Landscaping | 678 | 2.70 | Not published | |
| Painting | 453 | 1.81 | Not published | |
| Pest control | 126 | 0.50 | Not published | |
| Plumbing | 386 | 1.54 | Not published | $48.56 |
| Pool | 42 | 0.17 | Not published | |
| Roofing | 345 | 1.38 | Not published | $29.43 |
| Other home service | 5,725 | 22.83 | Not published |
Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Roofers. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026.
All 11 trades here clear the 8-record floor, so no trade URL of this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.
Cities inside Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro with their own page
| City | Trades | Records covered |
|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | other home service | 460 |
| Tigard | other home service | 199 |
| Gresham | other home service | 156 |
| Lake Oswego | other home service | 108 |
| Oregon City | other home service | 97 |
| Aloha | other home service | 73 |
| Milwaukie | other home service | 71 |
| Orchards | other home service | 56 |
| Five Corners | other home service | 54 |
| Damascus | other home service | 53 |
| Wilsonville | other home service | 50 |
The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.
Home-service contractors in Oregon carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.